Supply chains are tangled, global webs. Companies that think they are isolated from China's epidemic could be in for a surprise
新冠疫情動搖全球科技供應鏈中心
由於中國當局努力遏制新冠疫情，富士康等科技供應商的在華工廠已受命停工，這一全球技術供應鏈的心臟已停止跳動。
HKFP_Live: Hongkongers are gathering in malls and forming human chains on the streets as they ring in the New Year with another protest.
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The noun piston ring has one meaning:
Meaning #1: seal consisting of a split metal ring that seals the gap between a piston and the cylinder wall
更深入點的資訊：
piston ring
這（摩托車用）”活塞環（圈）”（piston ring），是我1972年暑假工讀的產業啟蒙。所以特別記一下。其實，我並沒有深入研究諸如piston ring gap clearance （活塞圈接口間隙）。由於要找Riken之資料，讀到它幾年前要與某歐洲廠合資設piston rings.廠。
The earthquake also made itself felt on Japan’s car industry. Toyota announced Wednesday that it would temporarily halt production at domestic plants later this week because the earthquake had destroyed the Kashiwazaki factory of Riken Corporation, a supplier of piston rings.
Late at night, Mr. Skinner sometimes lingers in the empty debating
chamber, home to a ceremonial gold mace that, since the 17th century,
has served as a symbol of the monarch's authority in Parliament. The
mace has been brutalized at times: Former Conservative minister Michael
Heseltine won the nickname Tarzan after swinging it round his head
during a heated debate in 1976.
Mr. Skinner, however, once tested
the weight of the mace, and handled it with care. It helped him gauge
the place. Eventually, Mr. Skinner says, you get to "understand the
chemistry" of Parliament.
The senator is very demanding and is reputed to endlessly chivvy her staff to work harder.
サプライ・チェーン・マネジメント（英: supply chain management、SCM）、供給連鎖管理（きょうきゅうれんさかんり）とは、物流システムをある1つの企業の内部に限定することなく、複数の企業間で統合的な物流システムを構築し、経営の成果を高めるための ...
2019/05/20 - A supply chain is a network between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute a specific product to the final buyer. This network includes different activities, people, entities, information, and resources. The supply ...
chivvy
(also chivy)
verb (chivvies, chivvying, chivvied)
[with object] chiefly British
tell (someone) repeatedly to do something:an association which chivvies government into action
Origin:
late 18th century:
probably from the ballad Chevy Chase, celebrating a skirmish (probably
the battle of Otterburn, 1388) on the Scottish border. Originally a
noun denoting a hunting cry, the term later meant 'a pursuit', hence
the verb 'to chase, worry' (mid 19th century)
mace
n.
- A ceremonial staff borne or displayed as the symbol of authority of a legislative body.
- A macebearer.
- A heavy medieval war club with a spiked or flanged metal head, used to crush armor.
[Middle English, from Old French masse, from Vulgar Latin *mattea.]
mace2 (
mās)
n.
An aromatic spice made from the dried, waxy, scarlet or yellowish covering that partly encloses the kernel of the nutmeg.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin macis, alteration of Latin macir, fragrant ailanthus resin, from Greek makir.]
ring
n.
- A circular object, form, line, or arrangement with a vacant circular center.
- A small circular band, generally made of precious metal and often set with jewels, worn on the finger.
- A circular band used for carrying, holding, or containing something: a napkin ring.
- rings Sports. A pair of circular metal bands suspended in the air for gymnastic exercises, on which balancing and swinging maneuvers are performed while holding the bands as motionless as possible.
- A circular movement or course, as in dancing.
- An enclosed, usually circular area in which exhibitions, sports, or contests take place: a circus ring.
- Sports.
- A rectangular arena set off by stakes and ropes in which boxing or wrestling events are held.
- The sport of boxing.
- Games.
- An enclosed area in which bets are placed at a racetrack.
- Bookmakers considered as a group.
- An exclusive group of people acting privately or illegally to advance their own interests: a drug ring.
- A political contest; a race.
- Botany. An annual ring.
- Mathematics. The area between two concentric circles; annulus.
- Mathematics. A set of elements subject to the operations of addition and multiplication, in which the set is an abelian group under addition and associative under multiplication and in which the two operations are related by distributive laws.
- Any of the turns constituting a spiral or helix.
- Chemistry. A group of atoms linked by bonds that may be represented graphically in circular or triangular form. Also called closed chain.
ring in
[ I ] COMMUNICATIONS, WORKPLACE
Tim rang in to say he wouldn't be coming in.
enclose
Pronunciation:
/ɪnˈkləʊz, ɛn-/
(also inclose)
Translate enclose | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
verb
[with object]
1surround or close off on all sides:the entire estate was enclosed with walls (as adjective enclosed)a dark enclosed space
historical fence in (common land) so as to make it private property: the open fields in the parish were enclosed in 1808
(usually as adjective
enclosed)
seclude (a religious order or other community) from the outside world: a Mother Superior in an enclosed order
2place (something) in an envelope together with a letter: I enclose a copy of the job description
3 (
enclose something in/within)
place an object inside (a container): the lamp was enclosed in a frosted glass globe
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense 'shut in, imprison'): from Old French
enclos, past participle of
enclore, based on Latin
includere 'shut in'
[動](他)［III[名]（[副]）］
1
(1) 〈小切手・書類などを〉（手紙・小包などに）同封する((with, in ...))；…を（…に）入れる, 納める((in ...))
enclose a phrase in parentheses
句を丸がっこで囲む
I enclose ［＝I am enclosing］ herewith ....
…を同封します（▼進行形のほうがくだけた言い方）
(2) 〈手紙などが〉〈同封物を〉含む
2 〈かき・塀(へい)などが〉〈場所を〉取り囲む；〈土地・建物などを〉（かきで）取り囲む, 囲む((with, by ...))
